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they can come together to me to get the

they can come together to me to get the
promised reward and restoration.
Mr.. Blethen also says that have never
added O dime to the value OF the place where
live, nor to the value OF the city. Yet he
has made countless spread-eagle spurges in
regard to our city parks, and declared that
the park commissioners by the selection of
lands for parks had increased the value of
the city over $3O,0O0,000. II that assertion is
correct, then / have certainly benefited and
increased the value of the city several mill
ions, for have for many years furnished the
city its most beautiful park and most pic
tureSque and noted spot there is in 1t. And
the parks that he has gushed so much over
have cost the city generally immense sums of
money and have practically confiscated all
the surrounding and neighboring premises by
special taxes to pay for them, and the park
lands were withdrawn from all future taxes,
which increased just so much the more the
taxes on all the other lands In the city, while
my park continued to pay each year its
heavy taxes and cost no one but myself a
single penny. If Mr. Blethens assertions in
regard to our parks are correct then / have
benefited and increased the value of the city
more with my park than though had built
Il block on its site that would eclipse the West
hotel end the Boston block combined.
And as q matter OF fact the making and
keeping Of my park has cost me infinitely
more money than the Tribune company and
its proprietorS are all worth on top of their
debts. And the amount OF money pay and
contribute each year towards supporting the
government and institutions OF the county, by
taxes and donations, probably greatly exceeds
the entire amount contributed for similar
purposes by everybody by the name of Blethen
since Adam was bounced from the Garden OF
Eden. Mr.. Blethen calls me about every
thing but decent man. AS to those charges
we will let the courts arbitrate between US.
1t is hardly the proper thing for q man to say
much in his own favor, but L trust the world
may not be much the worse for my living in
it; and venture to nope that l have not
made myself obnoxious even to salvation to
every person who knows me, as q coarse,
swearing, strutting and drinking coXcomb.
And now, as Mr.. Blethen has asserted posi-
lively, that have obtained all of my property
dishonesty and dishonorably. and l have
made him the above plain, square offers, let
him proceed ut once to prove his statements;
heavily epdow the charitable institutions of
the city with my premises, and receive for
himself his $1,000 for each piece for his re-
ward for his services And if he does not do
this AID thereby demonstrate fully just what
sort of a man he is, then what have the citi-
Zens generally, and the members of the board
of trade, the chamber of commerce, the Elk
position, and the numerous other societies
and companies into which he has wormed his
way, particularly to say and to do, in regard
to a man and paper, in their midst, who con-
ducts himself and his paper, as Mr.. Blethen
conducts himself and the Tribune, with such
| an entire disregard for truth and of all the
! amenities, civiities proprieties and even
decencies of civilized life? How much longer
will they tolerate such people and such papers
in their midst? Have they not already reached
that point at which patience ceases to be u
virtue, and experienced enough Of such peo-
pie and such Journalism? Can Minneapolis
afford to haYe her fair name and fame in
delbly disgraced .by having her newspapers
conducted with the entire absence of all
principle and even decency, which continu-
| ally characterizes the way Mr. Blethen ruins
the Minneapolis Tribune? L. NJ STEWART